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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1901
Page
3
Between May 1 and May 15 a two year old white steer with a crop on the right ear arrived at a farm near Weet's Gap Virginia. The owner can prove property and redeem the steer by presenting ownership and paying charges.
Professor Wheeler explains a ant genus living commensally with certain ants forming underground “mushroom gardens.” They cut and transport leaven into cellars, pulp it, and cultivate fungal mycelium kept sterile to feed the colony, with growth driven by tiny swellings akin to kitchen garden sprouts.
A satirical note on death certificates quoting a laborer dying from injuries when a bull accidentally kneels on his chest and another man killed after a collision with a moving railway train due to a misunderstanding with an engine driver. The piece questions moral responsibility and humor in official records.
A Springfield Republican anecdote recalls a passenger rebuking a crying baby and a ventriloquist quip saving the moment. It then reports on the lord mayor’s show costs, borrowing splendor from property men, and a tale of armor suits used on stage that caused a stifling emergency at Guildhall until a armor maker freed two men.
A wealthy Pittsburg man with a taste for privacy travels east on short notice. Preferring a stateroom, he orders an employee to secure one. when unavailable, he accepts a sleeping car section. The agent returns two berths, but the employer discovers one ticket reads upper 3 and the other upper 8, nearly costing the man his job.
County Clerk Cartmell issued a marriage license to Frank Weathers and Frances Carter both residents of the county. The groom is a widower sixty and the bride a widow fifty. Miss Beasle Gibbs of Martinsburg visits relatives in the city.
Special excursions offered by Norfolk and Western and Pennsylvania railways to Atlantic City on August 15 29 and September 12 1901. Tickets valid on trains 4 and 28 only, returnable within sixteen days, with ten day Philadelphia stopover on going trip. Basket picnic at Bethel August 22 with address by W J Smith. COMMITTEE 8 13 td p.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad with the Pennsylvania Railroad offers seven day excursions to Buffalo during the Pan American Exposition. Tickets from Winchester on train No 4 depart at 7 30 a m on multiple July August and September 1901 dates, round trip $10, signature validated for return. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also runs $10 trips to Buffalo with P R R and Lehigh Valley on August 8 14 20 29 September 4 10 19 25.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip fares from all points east of the Ohio River for the G A B annual encampment in Cleveland Ohio September 10 to 14. Tickets are valid Sept 8 to 12 and refundable until Sept 15 with a 50 cent extension fee to Oct 8. Call an agent for tickets and full details.
In the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Frederick County on August 12 1901 in Chancery Maggie L Fryatt plaintiff YY Berken Maryland Rk k Schedule in effect March 14 1899 Main Line reads down read up Added trains leave Baltimore for Union Bridge and intermediate stations at 1017 am and 610 pm and leave Union Bridge for Baltimore at 606 am and 1260 pm daily except Sunday Trains for Frederick leave Bruceville at 888 86 and 10 pm and 688 and 650 pm Trains for Littlestown and Taneytown leave Bruceville 947 am 4 pm and 846 pm Leave Our Ridge for Emmitsburg at 626 and 0nd rland 6 4 pm Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at 760 and 1000 am and 966 and 460 pm Leave Hagerstown for Waynesboro Chambersburg and intermediate stations at 686 am and for Shippensburg and intermediate stations at 1110 pm and 700 pm Leave Shippensburg for Hagerstown and intermediate stations at 600 am and 2348 pm and leave Chambersburg for Hagerstown and intermediate stations at 145 pm.
Having bought the entire interest of Mr. C. L. Crum in the C. V. Elevator, the new owners announce they will extend the same cordiality and fair dealings that have characterized the elevator to patrons and friends.
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